[aerogear-dev] Cordova Plugin Idea

[Kris Borchers]

On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:

> Good point, I was not very clear - I consider the plugin to be at least two deliverables:
> 1) The native code
> 2) the JS lib that exposes "wraps" the API for the JS developer
> 
> For item 2, ideally the JS API would be identical between iOS and Android.

Yes, that is how I visualize all of this as well. We will just need to have conversations with the iOS and Android folks to see if #2 is possible since they could have different native storage implementations that just can't easily overlap in a single API.
> 
> 
> On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Kris Borchers wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 20, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ideally, the JS developer will mostly be OS agnostic.   Can the Cordova plugin support both the iOS and Android means of "storage"?
>> 
>> Depends on what you mean by "Cordova Plugin". When I say Cordova Plugin, I am talking about the native bits (iOS/Android/etc) that plug into Cordova. The JS side could maybe be made as a "device storage" adapter that would then talk to the correct native pieces but that's a little beyond me at this point as I haven't looked into Cordova contribution much yet.
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>>> 
>>> On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>>> 
>>>> great!
>>>> 
>>>> had the same thought, but forgot about it :-)
>>>> 
>>>> AGCoreData is not yet ready, though
>>>> 
>>>> -Matthias
>>>> 
>>>> On Thursday, December 20, 2012, Lucas Holmquist wrote:
>>>> I know we really haven't talked about cordova plugins to much, but i want to just get this thought down so i didn't forget about it.
>>>> 
>>>> would it make sense to have a cordova plugin for accessing the core data stuff from our iOS libs, that is once it's ready.
>>>> 
>>>> I know cordova has a storage api, but it looks like it is just based on the W3C web storage/web sql specs
>>>> 
>>>> i guess i was thinking this is how it would work:
>>>> 
>>>> Possibley have an aerogear.js datamanager plugin for the front end that then calls the aerogear ios libs coredata plugin
>>>> 
>>>> In JS
>>>> 
>>>> var dataManager = AeroGear.DataManager({
>>>>     name: coreDataStore,
>>>>     type: CoreData //or something
>>>> });
>>>> 
>>>> var coreDataStore = dataManager.stores[0];
>>>> 
>>>> coreDataStore.read() // this would access the Aerogear ios core data part
>>>> I'm not really familiar with core data, so i could be way off base with this idea
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Luke
>>>> 
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